Table-top protector.



PATENTED MAY 19, 1908.

J. L. MOKAY. TABLE TOP PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21. 1907.

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J. L. MOKAY.

TABLE TOP PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21. 1907.

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i/ibesseef To all whom it may concern:

UNITED STATES PATEN T OFFICE.

JOHN L. MCKAY, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

TABLE IOP PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 19, 1908.

Application filed June/21, 1907. Serial No. 380,026.

an improved, simple, cheap and convenient table top protector, and to this end it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings; Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved protector. Fig. 2 is an edge elevation thereof, showing the protector partially folded. Fig. 3 is an edge ele vation of the protector, showing the same turned into a vertical position with the two separable sections thereof moved apart. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective view of a portion of the protector, with some parts broken away and some parts loosened up and turned out of position, with the said parts viewed looking to the top of the protector. Fig. 5 is abottom plan view of that portion of the protector which is shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a fragmentary perspective view, with some parts broken away. and some parts turned from position, and illustrating )articularly the manner in which the foling Huadrants of a protector are connected by exible hinges. Fi 7 is an edge elevation, with some parts bro en away,showing a device for securing together the two ,semicircular sections of the protector. Fig. 8'is a fragmentary view in plan of the parts shown in Fig. 7; and Fig. 9 is a detail view in section taken on the line as w of Fig. 1-, but shown on an enlarged scale.

The improved protector,.herein illustrated, is shown as circular, but may, nevertheless, be square, oblong, or of any other desired form- It is made up of so-called'half sections and quarter sections which, in the cir cular protector, may be designated respectively as semi-circular sections and quadrants, the said quadrants being designated as entireties by the numeral 1. The main body portions of these quadrants 1 are formed by a light filler which is made up of two pasteboard plates 2 between which is secured a corrugated pasteboard spacer 3. verging marginal edges of this filler are reinforced by wooden slats 4, and preferably this .filler is stren thened and held together by means of a sjieet of heavy pasteboard 45".

Over the entire bottom of this composite 5 filler is secured a sheet of felt or heavy cloth 5. A sheet of asbestos cloth 6 is placed over the entire top of the said'composite filler, and the edges of the felt sheet 5 are turned upward and inward and are secured to the 7 upper marginal portion of the said asbestos sheet 6, all as best shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

A sheet of oil cloth 7 is extended over two 'of the quadrants thus formed and is secured to the upper surfaces of the sheets 6 and to the upper surfaces .of the inturned u)per edges of the felt facing 5. The oil 0 0th sheets 7 thus flexibly connect the four quadrants of the protector in two pairs, and in a sense ,afford the hinges therefor. the said quadrants are further connected by leather hingesS that are directly applied to the u iper surfaces of the abutting edges of the as means. Furthermore, flexible reinforcing joint strips 9 overlap the joints between the flexibly connected quadrants, and are secured by adherent material, or other means,

over the hinges 8 and between the abutting asbestos sheets 6 and the oil cloth covering 7. These reinforcing joint stri s9 should be of waterproof material, such, or instance, as oil cloth or rubber sheeting, so that besides reinforcing the flexible hinges, they afford additional rotection against the passage of liquids etweenthe 'oints ofthe protector even though the oil 0 0th should be cracked in the line of the joints.

The oil cloth covermg 7 of one of thesemi- 0 circular sections, made up ofa pair of connected quadrants, is provided with a projected flap 7 that is adapted to overlap the abutting edge of the other oil cloth covering,

and thus form an approximately liquid tight 5 The di- 60 However, 80

estos sheets 6 of the connected quadrants by means of tacks, or other suitable 5 same together are desirable, and these fastening s should be such that they will not scratch or mar the top of a highly polished table. Hence, I provide one of the half sections with flexible cords 10 of leather, or other suitable material, and

provide the other half section of the protector with cooperating spring clips or prongs 11 having diverging tongues, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8. By reference to these views it will be seen that the two half sections of the protector may be secured together by-dra'wing the freeends of the so-called cords 10 between the bodies and tongues of the said clips. With these fasteners also, it is evident, the

two half sections of the protector may be very quickly disconnected.

What I claim is:

1. A- sectional table to protector, the

sections of which are provi' ed with covering sheets, one of which has a rojecting edge flap adapted to overlap the a utting edge of an adjacent section, substantially as described.

2. A table top protector made u of quarter sections, said quarter sections eing connected in pairs for folding movements and each connected pair having a flexible covering one of the said flexible coverings having a projecting edge flap that is adapted to overlap the abutting edges of the other pair of quarter sections, substantially as described.-

8. A table top protector made up of quarter sections, and flexible waterproof coverings connecting the said quarter sections in pairs, and each quarter, section further. comprising a corru ated filler, an asbestos covering sheet, an a felt sheet covering the bot tom thereof turned upward and inward and secured between the said asbestos covering and said waterproof covering, substantially as described.

4. In a table top protector, the combina tion with quarter sections made up of the corrugated filler 2 -3, with marginal reinforcing slats' l, the asbestos sheet 6 secured proof covering 7 connecting said quarter seethe under surfaces of said quarter sections with their edges turned upward and inward 6 and waterproof covering 7, substantially as described.

thereof and detachably engageable with said tongues, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. vJOHNL. MC'KAY. Witnesses:

H. D. KILGORE,

M. E. RONEY.

5. A table top rotector made in separable f to the upper surfaces of said filler, the watertions in pairs, and the felt sheetsfi applied to le cords connected to the other section 50 v and secured between the said asbestos sheet i 

